Thursday, September 3, 2015

(Any thinking human -- even a toddler -- can see, can feel, can intuit the difference between alive and not alive.

there is just something about ALIVE

Nor is it the question,

When does human life begin?(The spectacular path of a human life:

from conception through infancy and toddlerhood, through childhood development and psychological growth,through massive hormonal changes and inner self-discovery, through connections with others--even physical, sexual union with another and the bizarre, magical, mystical passing along of one's genetic material in the unbroken chain of life-- clear through to the solitude of material death--this spectacular path of life, science has now clearly presented us with the intricate, marvelous details of the wondrous and unique and singular DNA path of human life. Human from start to finish.

To put a fine point on this --

consider the heartbreaking cases of pregnant women who lose their baby in car accidents, in acts of violence, in sad accidents.

From the moment a child is anticipated,

whether at one month or at eight months, the human life in a woman's body has the

The first of the precepts is to refrain from taking life. The most serious instance of killing is taking a human life. The reasoning behind this prohibition is that nothing is as dear to a living being as its own life. The behavior of animals on the way to slaughter and even insects about to be squashed make this clear. The injunction against taking life, then, is rooted in compassion for living beings in danger of losing what they hold most dear. Placing more importance on one's own welfare than the welfare of other beings is often cited as the reason beings continue to circle within the vicious wheel of samsara. The path to enlightenment is seen as integrally related to reversing the tendency to self-grasping and self-cherishing.

Abortion, because it is seen as taking the life of a fetus, poses a serious moral, spiritual, and personal dilemma. In Indian Buddhist texts, taking life applies to taking the life of a "sentient" being, a being with consciousness and hence the potential to achieve enlightenment. Taking life includes performing the action of killing, having someone else kill, or encouraging someone to kill. Killing a human being is considered more serious than killing an animal and taking the life of a fetus is regarded as killing a human being. There is no prohibition against family planning methods that prevent conception.

Traditionally for Buddhists, the life process of sentient beings begins at the moment of conception, when a being's consciousness “enters" the conjoined egg and sperm of the parents.

Because life begins at the moment of fertilization, there is thought to be no qualitative difference between an abortion in the first trimester versus the last trimester. Although a fetus is not regarded as having a fully developed "personality," in the Western sense of the word, it is regarded as being a "person," complete with the five aggregates that serve as the basis of determining personal identity: form, feelings, perceptions, karmic formations, and consciousness.

Buddhist philosophical and medical literature describe in remarkable (if technically inaccurate) detail the stages of embryonic development of the fetus month by month, some with illustrations. In addition to the physical aggregate, a fetus is said to have feelings of heat, cold, pain, and discomfort; perceptions of being cramped, bounced, and restricted; karmic formations, including the "imprints" of actions created in past lives; and a momentary stream of consciousness that carries the imprints of actions that being has created in past lives. According to the quality of those actions, the being will experience pleasure or pain, and live a long or short lifespan, in happy or unhappy circumstances.

Some posit that there is a wonderful animal kingdom, and they live freely, by instinct and learning, and they are part of the natural world, beautiful, and when they die, their substance may return to the earth.....But in a Christian tradition, the Creator of all that is decided to create company, little gods to share, as Family, in the conscious bliss of Loving, as it were, and these sons and daughters are in the image, so to speak, of the Creator. These have a soul, that is, they are not simply material beings. They have a life which is everlasting. This life gift is sacred.

consider this very small snip from the Catholic Catechism:

'The inalienable rights of the person must be recognized and respected by civil society and the political authority. These human rights depend neither on single individuals nor on parents; nor do they represent a concession made by society and the state; they belong to human nature and are inherent in the person by virtue of the creative act from which the person took his origin. Among such fundamental rights one should mention in this regard every human being's right to life and physical integrity from the moment of conception until death.'(79)

that is, no spirit no soul no personality no conciousness of the self, no rightwrong

A theory of evolution that
might suggest that we who are the strongest and able to make/get/produce fine things
should have them,
and
PLEASE
Thin the Herd, baby, every little human body is only
a piece of flotsam and jetsam;
if no silly flimsy thing like a "soul" is there, who cares?
If we are molecular collections of meaningless life, take the best, forget the rest.

Modern Theories of Evolution have taught us that we are at core, soulless globs of molecule conglomerates. Yea, verily we are at the Top of the Glob Heap, complication/evolved/adaptation-wise, but globs of self-perpetuating atoms nonetheless.

There is no “earthly” reason why a globule can not be absolutely selfish. Particularly if a huge mass of globules create a support structure, the evolved ones trip across the ocean of drones, spreading seed, using wits and smarts and manipulation and charm and theft and betrayal and objectification of every being—oops, soulless mass-- they encounter. There is no reason not to....

Where there are no myths such as a “Universal God” or “Good” “Evil” “Absolute” “Judgment”—the Crown Jewel of Evolution is Passing Along the Genes, Hitler is Evolution’s Genius, and Powerful Men should take whatever they want. Survival, nay, Rule of the fittest.

In this case, the idea that Life is in any way sacred is a laugh, baby, you gotta be kiddin me!

Here is a list of all nine:In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts.In the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs.

In the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to go.”

In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States.”

In the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.”In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.”

The ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who “just fell out” of the womb.

The woman of the Roe v Wade case says:
Sandra Cano, in her 2005 testimony before the U.S. Senate, said: “Using my name and life, Doe v. Bolton falsely created the health exception that led to abortion on demand and partial birth abortion. How it got there is still pretty much a mystery to me. I only sought legal assistance to get a divorce from my husband and to get my children from foster care. … At no time did I ever have an abortion. I did not seek an abortion nor do I believe in abortion. Yet my name and life is now forever linked with the slaughter of 40-50 million babies. … How can cunning, wicked lawyers use an uneducated, defenseless pregnant woman to twist the American court system in such a fraudulent way? Doe has been a nightmare. … My name, life, and identity have been stolen and put on this case without my knowledge and against my wishes. How dare they use my name and my life this way! One of the Justices of the Supreme Court said during oral argument in my case ‘What does it matter if she is real or not.’ Well I am real and it does matter.”

OK this will be a section about the law;
will outline exactly what federal laws are being broken and proven to be regularly broken.

Under federal law, “It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration if the transfer affects interstate commerce.”And there are strict guidelines on how tissue can be donated. The woman having an abortion must give her consent, she must be made aware of all the risks, and “no alteration of the timing, method, or procedures used to terminate the pregnancy [can be] made solely for the purposes of obtaining the tissue.”

"A new scathing report from Alliance Defending Freedom reveals how Planned Parenthood covered up cases of child sexual abuse in seven states. The 13-page summary report shows how the abortion giant failed to report the crimes to authorities, as required by law, but instead profited off the abortions of minor girls.

The report cites multiple cover-ups —not isolated incidents—of sexually abused minors in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Ohio. In every case, ADF reports how affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America did secret abortions, and sent innocent victims back into the arms of their sexual abusers....more****************************From the carly fiorinastatements: ( Here)

The media have consistently failed to cover the Planned Parenthood footage, and now they are covering up the truth. The reality is that babies of the same gestational age are having their organs harvested every day. These videos feature graphic footage of abortionists mangling babies to harvest organs to sell. They feature abortionists admitting that babies often survive those abortions. They show high-level Planned Parenthood officials encouraging this organ-harvesting scheme, acknowledged that it is happening, and attempting to skirt scrutiny from it.

The videos Carly Fiorina referenced do indeed exist, and they reveal the barbaric realities of the abortion industry.

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